Demonstration of the Double Helix

This is a proof of concept blog post. Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you!

Double Helix from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Sándor Kabai
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Item is not interactive on FireFox 3.0.15 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (old!)

Works for me visually but not interactively, and tells me to get wolfram cdf player.

on Opera 11.60...

Will try again later, after downloading finished

Interactivity works, though it has a cylinder in it for no good reason I can determine. Maxing out rungs makes it less obtrusive, but still there...

Chromium18.0.1025.151 (Entwickler-Build 130497) Ubuntu 11.10
BetriebssystemLinux
WebKit535.19 (trunk@106313)
JavaScriptV8 3.8.9.16
Flash11.2 r202
No interactivity.

By wereatheist (not verified) on 25 Apr 2012 #permalink

Works for me after a browser restart. But isn't that the wrong turn?

PC, FF 11.0

Works fine for me in Chrome 18.0.1025.162 m running on Windows Vista once I downloaded the wolfram plugin. Sphere resolution is a little clunky compared to Jmol, but otherwise fine and smoothly responsive.